Patriots bringing in Emmanuel Sanders for a visit

Summary of 10 articles · Updated Mar 17, 2013

According to ESPN’s Adam Schefter, will host Steelers receiver Emmanuel Sanders on a visit. Emmanuel Sanders , the Pittsburgh Steelers' restricted free-agent wide receiver, has yet to receive an offer sheet from the New England Patriots after his visit Fr… (more)iday, according to ESPN NFL Insider Adam Schefter That doesn't mean Sanders is definitely staying with the Steelers this season. When we passed along the report from the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette saying Emmanuel Sanders had signed an offer sheet with the Patriots, we noted that there was no information about the terms of Sanders’ offer sheet, and that no other media outlets had confirmed the report. Sanders was tendered at a third-round and is due to make $1.3 million in Pittsburgh this year, and the Steelers will have issues matching if Sanders gets a big deal. If he does, the Steelers can match the offer for Sanders, who is a restricted free agent, or let him go and receive a third-round choice in this year's draft in return. The only Steelers wide receivers with any experience right now are Brown, Jerricho Cotchery Plaxico Burress and David Gilreath If the Steelers lost Sanders, it would add another question mark to the offense, which doesn't have a featured running back and faces uncertainty with the status of tight end Heath Miller . Steelers general manager Kevin Colbert today tried to downplay the impact of already losing three starters in free agency Mike Wallace, Keenan Lewis and Rashard Mendenhall and did so with a bit of a bite. "Only time will tell .